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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Suppose another person wrote the following one-line shell script:
echo $RANDOM > /dev/tty
QUESTION #1: How can the random number, which is output to the terminal by this script, be captured in a variable?
QUESTION #2: How can this be done in a cron job?
Specific code, whether in ksh or... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Paul R
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2. AIX
Hello,
One one of my AIX boxes I'm having the following errror:
fcstat fcs0:
Port Speed (supported): 4 GBIT
Error opening device: /dev/fscsi0
errno: 0000003d
Has anyone encountered similar errors?
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi,
From the below script:
##########################################pwd_auth.sh########################################################################################
#Author: Pandeeswaran Bhoopathy
#Written on:26th Jan 2012 2:00PM
#This script describes the feature of stty and illustrates... (3 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
what can I use to find the last modified time of a /dev/tty ? (4 Replies)
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5. Programming
Hello everybody:
I have a child process which reads a password from /dev/tty, as far as I know file descriptors for the child process can be seen by using lsof, so I want to connect to such device in order to send the password through a pipe, how could I do that? (2 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to provide more than one character to "> /dev/tty" through terminal/keyboard input, I have this:
ok=false
while
do
echo " Enter r1 to reformat "
> /dev/tty
read choice
case $choice in
)
echo " bla bla bla "
;;
done
However, in this way,... (3 Replies)
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7. Programming
hello all,
Being root, I would like to log user activity (also multiple root activity), i don't really like
history file based logging, lets assume that users have access to their .profile.
I would like to write a monitoring daemon in C that would capture /dev/ttys,
so I need to do a... (0 Replies)
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8. Solaris
Hi, Anyone can help
My solaris 8 system has the following
/dev/null , /dev/tty and /dev/console
All permission are lrwxrwxrwx
Can this be change to a non-world write ??
any impact ?? (12 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi...
This is message that occurs when i am trying to shutdown the linux system
timeout opening writing control channel /dev/initctl
how can i shutdown what is the problem here..
Thanks in advance
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
When it proccesing the backup with cpio report this message: Cannot open "/dev/tty" and cancel de backup.
Cuando se procesa la tarea del backup reporta el error: Cannot open "/dev/tty" y cancela el backup y no termina correctamente, a que se devera esta advertencia.
Gracias.
Thacks.... (3 Replies)
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